In recent months, Nigerian fintech company, OPay, entered a partnership with WorldRemit and launched an open API platform for developers. Dotun Adekunle, Vice President, Product and Engineering, expla…
OPay finally drops super app ambition; restructures model
OPay responds to shutdown claims of its businesses in Nigeria as it reveals plans to restructure. For the Chinese-backed startup, it seems current economic situations have forced it to limit its focus…
What’s happening to OPay’s super app plans?
Nigerian fintech startup, OPay has added more verticals to its platform. With the termination of ORide in Lagos earlier this year, we address speculations about the startup’s survival and explor…
Beyond OPay, your favourite lending apps may be at risk for alleged violation of Google’s policies
A recent report suggests Opera’s micro-lending platforms may have violated Google’s policies but other lending platforms are not exempt from this. Should they be worried?…
OPay takes another step towards becoming Africa’s WeChat with new messaging feature
OPay continues to try out different services on its mobile application with a messaging feature now added to an existing log of 15 services. We explore what this might mean for the startup’s super app…
OPay, PalmPay and a long line of Chinese investor interests in Africa
There is a competition brewing between OPay and PalmPay, and this thinking is down to the strong investor network of both sides. But how deep does the investor tie really go?…
OPay transaction fee hike is aimed at keeping users within its ecosystem
OPay recently reviewed the transfer bank charges fee on its platform. The implication is that users no longer have the luxury of paying ₦10 for bank transfers on the platform. But the payment platform…
The OPaycalypse: 13 execs who left top tech companies for OPay Nigeria over the past year
With the help of LinkedIn, we found 13 people who joined OPay Nigeria after leaving their roles in top tech companies. Here they are. …
OBus is now allowing third party buses on its platform
OPay is outsourcing its bus-hailing service, OBus, to third party bus owners and vendors…
OBus beta testing continues in Lagos with two buses
Still at beta phase, OBus gets on Lagos roads with two buses…
OPay launches ‘OBus’, a public bus hailing service, in Lagos
OPay continues its aggressive expansion drive with the launch of OBus, a commuter transit service that operates using branded hummer buses for intrastate trips within Lagos.…
OPay continues to expand as ‘OTrike’ launches in Aba and Kano
Opera-founded startup, Opay, has just introduced OTrike, a tricycle hailing service, in the commercial city of Aba, southeast of Nigeria, and northwestern city, Kano.…
ORide is a Trojan Horse; Opera’s not really after the motorcycle-hailing market in Lagos
What Opera’s entry into the motorcycle e-hailing market means for the Nigerian mobile payment market.…
Opera to acquire controlling stake in Nigerian mobile money platform, PayCom
The company behind the popular Opera browser, Opera Software is about closing an acquisition deal for Telnet Nigeria Limited’s mobile money platform — Paycom. It was reported that Opera Software is se…
